Word: zaragoza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Healing Powers. Franco frequently became quite lucid, occasionally chatting with his family and even discussing with Premier Carlos Arias Navarro the lineup of military forces that might confront each other in the Spanish Sahara. At one point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...
After studying for two years at the Infantry Academy in Zaragoza, the Prince was sent for a year each to the Naval School at Marin and the Air Academy at San Javier. Armed with commissions in all three services, Juan Carlos began his civilian education at the University of Madrid in 1960. Lest he be tempted by what his father called "the tra-la-la of Madrid," however, he was cloistered once again, this time 30 miles from the capital, with a retinue of chaperons that included two dukes, three colonels and a personal chaplain...
...choirboy allegedly crucified in the 13th century by Jews who hated his hymn singing, is still fresh. Sister Despina says that the chorister-patron saint of Spanish choirboys-never existed, and that the first documented reference to him dates only from 1587. Yet the cathedral of Zaragoza, she notes, has a brightly lit chapel to the young saint and a cross with him upon...